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Before California's 1911 election to approve a proposition granting women the right to vote, activists across the state sold tea to promote the cause of suffrage. In San Francisco, the Woman's Suffrage Party sold Equality Tea at local fairs.
________ in Los Angeles, activist Nancy Tuttle Craig, who ran one of California's largest grocery store firms, distributed Votes for Women Tea.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
For example,
To conclude,
Similarly,
In other words,
In 2019, researcher Patricia Jurado Gonzalez and food historian Nawal Nasrallah prepared a stew from a 4,000-year-old recipe found on a Mesopotamian clay tablet. When they tasted the dish, known as pasratum ("unwinding"), they found that it had a mild taste and inspired a sense of calm. ________ the researchers, knowing that dishes were sometimes named after their intended effects, theorized that the dish's name, "unwinding," referred to its function: to help ancient diners relax.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Therefore,
Alternately,
Nevertheless,
Likewise,
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
* In 2013, archaeologists studied cat bone fragments they had found in the ruins of Quanhucun, a Chinese farming village.
* The fragments were estimated to be 5,300 years old.
* A chemical analysis of the fragments revealed that the cats had consumed large amounts of grain.
* The grain consumption is evidence that the Quanhucun cats may have been domesticated.
The student wants to present the Quanhucun study and its conclusions. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
As part of a 2013 study of cat domestication, a chemical analysis was conducted on cat bone fragments found in Quanhucun, China.
A 2013 analysis of cat bone fragments found in Quanhucun, China, suggests that cats there may have been domesticated 5,300 years ago.
In 2013, archaeologists studied what cats in Quanhucun, China, had eaten more than 5,000 years ago.
Cat bone fragments estimated to be 5,300 years old were found in Quanhucun, China, in 2013.
Neuroscientist Karen Konkoly wanted to determine whether individuals can understand and respond to questions during REM sleep. She first taught volunteers eye movements they would use to respond to basic math problems while asleep (a single left-right eye movement indicated the number one). ________ she attached electrodes to the volunteers' faces to record their eye movements during sleep.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Specifically,
Next,
For instance,
In sum,
While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
* Novelist Villa Cather grew up in Nebraska and attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
* Some of Cather's best-known novels are set in Nebraska.
* Two such novels are O Pioneers! (1913) and My Antonia (1918).
* Cather's novels describe the experiences of immigrants who settled in the Great Plains.
The student wants to identify the setting of Cather's novel My Antonia. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
My Antonia is set in Nebraska, where Cather grew up.
Cather, author of My Antonia, described the experiences of immigrants in her novels.
Among Cather's best-known novels are O Pioneers! (1913) and My Antonia (1918).
Cather attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and set some of her novels in Nebraska.
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